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Filed under: Prints

Society and Style: Prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2014), ed. by Alison G. Stewart and Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

Filed under: Engraving, Renaissance -- France

Le Tableau des Riches Inventions, Couvertes du Voile des Feintes Amoureuses, Qui Sont Représentées dans le Songe de Poliphile: Desvoilées des Ombres du Songe et Subtilement Exposées (in French; Paris: M. Guillemot, 1600), by Francesco Colonna, contrib. by Béroalde de Verville

Filed under: Wood-engraving, German -- 16th century

Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Prints, Renaissance -- Exhibitions

Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by Janet S. Byrne (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Engraving, Italian -- 17th century

Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti

Filed under: Prints, European -- 17th century -- Exhibitions

Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1997), by Kevin Salatino (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

Filed under: Engraving, French -- 18th century -- Themes, motives

Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Prints, European -- 18th century -- Exhibitions

Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (Los Angeles: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1997), by Kevin Salatino (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

Filed under: Prints -- 19th century -- Catalogs

Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) (31 public domain volumes, in French; Paris: The author, 1906-1926), by Loys Delteil

Filed under: Prints, French -- Japanese influences

The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Prints -- 20th century -- Catalogs

Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) (31 public domain volumes, in French; Paris: The author, 1906-1926), by Loys Delteil

Filed under: Prints, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions -- Periodicals

Catalog of the National Exhibition of Prints (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Engraving, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions -- Periodicals

Catalog of the National Exhibition of Prints (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Monotype (Engraving) -- 20th century -- United States -- Catalogs

Harry Bertoia, Printmaker: Monotypes and Other Monographics (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by June Kompass Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

Filed under: Prints -- Catalogs

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide, by Bernard Reilly (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

Filed under: Engraving -- Catalogs

Le Peintre Graveur (21 volumes in French, published in Vienna 1803-1821), by Adam von Bartsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Jacobus Houbraken et Son Oeuvre (in French; Arnhem: P. Gouda Quint, 1875), by Alexander Ver Huell (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Engraving, Italian -- Italy -- Mantua -- 16th century -- Catalogs

The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by Michal Lewis, R. E. Lewis, and Suzanne Boorsch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Engraving -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Filed under: Lithography -- Catalogs

Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe Siècles) (31 public domain volumes, in French; Paris: The author, 1906-1926), by Loys Delteil

Filed under: Prints -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Filed under: Prints -- Washington (D.C.) -- Catalogs

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide, by Bernard Reilly (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

Filed under: Glyptics -- Exhibitions

Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Joan Aruz (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Prints, Italian -- Italy -- Genoa -- Exhibitions

Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), by Carmen Bambach and Nadine Orenstein, contrib. by William Griswold and Allegra Pesenti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Prints, European -- Expertising

How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Filed under: Prints -- History

Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, c1971), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Glyptics -- History

Die Antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum (3 volumes, n German; Leipzig: Giesecke und Devrient, 1900), by Adolf Furtwängler
- page images in Germany
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Wood-engraving -- Japan -- History

The Nōsatsu Kai (reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1917), by Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Engraving -- France -- History

A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (New York: W. L. Andrews, 1899), by William Loring Andrews
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Prints -- Technique -- History

How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

Filed under: Prints -- New York (State) -- New York

Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Prints -- Periodicals

Nouvelles de l'Estampe (in French) (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Engraving -- Periodicals

Nouvelles de l'Estampe (in French) (partial serial archives)
La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Engraving -- Prices

Allgemeiner Portrait-Katalog (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: Kunst-Comptoir, 1860), by Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Blueprints

Blueprint Reading (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1946), by International Business Machines Corporation Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Color prints

The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)

Filed under: Engraving

Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)
The Best Portraits in Engraving (fifth edition; New York et al.: F. Keppel, c1875), by Charles Sumner
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Engravings of Albrecht Durer (London: Seely and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894), by Lionel Cust (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup (New York: W. L. Andrews, 1899), by William Loring Andrews
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Lithography

The Senefelder Club (London: XXI Gallery, Adelphi, 1922), by Campbell Dodgson and Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Prints, French

The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Filed under: Wood-engraving

Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
Considerations on Engraving (New York: W. E. Rudge, 1921), by Timothy Cole
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Wood-engraving -- Printing

Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

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